Email Author Alan Prendergast

Awards

• 2011 - Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, published February 11, 2010

  "You're in Bad Hands"

• 2011 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published September 30, 2010

  "Black Out"

• 2011 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published November 4, 2010

  "Like an Open Book"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published February 11, 2010

  "You're in Bad Hands"

• 2011 - Society of Professional Journalists/Colorado Chapter, published February 11, 2010

  "You're in Bad Hands"

• 2010 - National Council on Crime and Delinquency/Prevention for a Safer Society Award, published October 22, 2009

  "The Quality of Mercy"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published May 14, 2009

  "The Giveaway"

• 2010 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published February 11, 2010

  "You're in Bad Hands"

• 2009 - Society of Professional Journalists/Colorado Chapter, published April 10, 2008

  "Miles and Miles"

• 2008 - Sigma Delta Chi Awards/Society of Professional Journalists, published August 16, 2007

  "The Caged Life"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published February 8, 2007

  "The Punisher"

• 2006 - National Council on Crime and Delinquency/Prevention for a Safer Society Award, published December 8, 2005

  "Catch-16"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published May 12, 2005

  "If the Shoe Fits"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 23, 2005

  "Welcome to America"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published September 8, 2005

  "Duke of Oil"

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2013 Stories by Alan Prendergast

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  Sexual misconduct at Denver women's prison: Why is the claimed rate so highr

  published May 17, 2013

  A new government report on the rate of sexual victimization in America's jails and prisons lists the Denver Women's Correctional Facility as having the highest rate of sexual assault and misconduct b... More >>

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  Wayne McDonald firing: Lawsuit against Mayor Michael Hancock rejected

  published May 14, 2013

  A federal lawsuit against Denver Mayor Michael Hancock and other city officials, filed by one of Hizzoner's former best buds and top advisors, has been dismissed by U.S. District Court Judge John Kane... More >>

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  Prairie dog poisonings not the only things angering Stapleton residents

  published May 13, 2013

  This week's feature, "The Dogs of War," reports on the ongoing campaign to manage -- and, in some cases, exterminate with poison -- prairie dog colonies in the emerging Stapleton community. Master dev... More >>

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  Video: How to understand what prairie dogs are saying -- and if they think you're fat

  published May 10, 2013

  This week's cover story, "The Dogs of War," examines increased efforts to eradicate prairie dogs around the metro Denver area -- particularly in Stapleton, where developers and park managers have foun... More >>

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  Troy Anderson: Are prisoner's conditions worse since winning supermax lawsuitr

  published May 08, 2013

  Troy Anderson, a mentally ill inmate at Colorado's supermax prison, won a landmark decision last summer when a federal judge ruled he's entitled to at least three hours a week of fresh air and outdoor... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  How a plan for open space near Stapleton became open season on prairie dogs

  published May 9, 2013

  More than most people, perhaps, Stapleton resident Patricia Olson feels a strong connection to animals. A veterinarian and former CEO of the... More >>

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  Wolverine, the sequel: Feds propose to bring tough weasel back to Colorado

  published May 06, 2013

  Today is the last day for public comment on a proposal by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to bring the wolverine -- not the Marvel character with the sharp claws, adamantium skeleton and tortured ... More >>

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  Dog inflation: Animal shelters charging people big bucks to adopt "Very Important Pets"

  published May 02, 2013

  Recently Gene Shue went looking for a new dog, a companion for the chihuahua he adopted three years ago -- and got a bad case of sticker shock. He found the perfect buddy dog at Golden's Foothills Ani... More >>

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  Philip Kerr reads, signs latest Bernie Gunther novel at Tattered Cover tonight

  published Apr 26, 2013

  It was an American writer, Dashiell Hammett, who wrested the detective novel from the polite confines of British tea parlors and morning rooms, packed with sleuthing aristocrats and poisoned butlers,... More >>

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  Crowley inmates settle riot lawsuit for $600,000

  published Apr 24, 2013

  On the eve of a 25-week trial that promised to focus on claims of poor training and worse management, the nation's largest private prison company has reached a settlement with nearly 200 former inmat... More >>

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  Video: Fracking protesters disrupt energy conference with balloon alarms

  published Apr 23, 2013

  If you're looking for a crash course in how to be annoying, you could do worse than study the guerrilla tactics of Colorado Extraction Resistance, a group of activists bent on chafing the thick hides ... More >>

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  Tom Clements: Murdered prison chief seen in new video urging drug-law reform

  published Apr 22, 2013

  Tom Clements, the reform-minded head of the Colorado Department of Corrections who was murdered at his home last month by a parolee, makes a posthumous appearance in a new video advocating for one of... More >>

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  The battle against bullying begins with the Bard

  published April 4, 2013

  The stage is a half-circle at the front of the auditorium, marked off with a snaking trail of rope; the audience sits on the floor.... More >>

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  Civil rights lawsuits attack excesses of Colorado's sex offender laws

  published Mar 25, 2013

  Colorado's tough sex offender laws are supposed to keep predators under tight supervision. But a series of lawsuits claim that the system is violating even minor offenders' rights to free speech and ... More >>

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  Death penalty battle heats up at the State Capitol

  published Mar 20, 2013

  In more than eight hours of emotional testimony that stretched well into the evening, activists and faith groups seeking to abolish the death penalty in Colorado squared off against prosecutors and ot... More >>

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  Save the Tank: Musicians unite to preserve an acoustic marvel in northwestern Colorado

  published Mar 13, 2013

  Back in 1976, while traveling around northwestern Colorado, composer and musician Bruce Odland was introduced by locals to the Tank, a sixty-foot-tall water tank outside Rangely. Odland used a circu... More >>

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  Crown Hill Park open-space defenders protest Jefferson County's "nature play" proposal

  published Mar 12, 2013

  Plenty of folks in Colorado like their nature as natural as possible. So when park officials began pushing for various amenities and improvements at a popular open-space area in Denver's western subu... More >>

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  Auraria neighborhood "doomed," predicted 1975 campus impact study

  published Mar 06, 2013

  Strange things happen when you poke around the "Ghosts of Auraria," as we did in this week's feature on whether certain promises, supposedly made to the community when the college campus was built, w... More >>

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  Horse cruelty trial: Was toxic weed responsible for sickening animalsr

  published Mar 06, 2013

  Update: This morning I spoke by phone with Randall Hatlee, one of the two ranchers found not guilty on misdemeanor animal neglect charges in the much-scrutinized Park County case involving several ail... More >>

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  Auraria as it used to be: Photos from a long-gone neighborhood

  published Mar 01, 2013

  This week's cover story, "Ghosts of Auraria," examines recent efforts, through new construction and revised master plans, to change the look and design of the Auraria campus -- and looks back at a tim... More >>

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  Auraria campus expansion: See plans for new athletic fields and more

  published Feb 28, 2013

  This week's cover story, "Ghosts of Auraria," delves into the half-buried history of the campus, which is moving rapidly forward with hefty development plans that include three new flagship student-se... More >>

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  Photo: Billboard gives thanks -- and advice -- to embattled BLM director

  published Feb 27, 2013

  When you're a bureaucrat under fire, accused of being a tool of Big Oil, there's nothing like a big, wet kiss from your critics to let you know you're being watched -- closely. Particularly if that gr... More >>

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  Looking to Auraria's future while studying the lessons of its past

  published February 28, 2013

  Few events in the life of a city are as relentlessly cheerful as a groundbreaking for a new school building. It's a time for back-slapping... More >>

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  Club Vinyl lawsuit: Can venues be held liable for the actions of their bouncersr

  published Feb 25, 2013

  Six years ago, Janny Barizonte, a 24-year-old law student, headed with friends to Club Vinyl looking for fun. What she got instead changed her life, and not for the better: a painful altercation with ... More >>

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  Edward Montour case: Was inmate a "volunteer" for the death penaltyr

  published Feb 21, 2013

  In an unusual court hearing unfolding in Castle Rock, attorneys for Edward Montour Jr. are seeking to withdraw his guilty plea for the murder of a correctional officer in 2002, claiming that he was me... More >>